Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quit being ashamed and embarrassed," he said. "Don't hide behind the scorn of the professional 'drys.' You have let them shrink you into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
...efforts as a teacher were met either with scorn or indifference. When the team was playing well, Sebbie regarded it as a minimum accomplishment--a shaky assurance that he, or rather Vag, was getting his money's worth. But when they fell behind, Sebbie lapsed into a stupor which added to Vag's depression. For consolation, Vag turned to his fake binoculars...
...taking range of emotion: she seemed to caress the air when pleading tenderly with Jason, then railed at him with fists clenched and her voice full of relentless fury, again sank to her knees with heart-breaking bell tones of despair. She could rail against Zeus himself with the scorn of a rebellious goddess, then chilled the audience in a sort of death march as she seized a dagger and prepared to kill her sons...
...collection of his dashingly hued, bold-lined canvases in 1906. He dispiritedly followed other Fauves into cubism, but soon drifted away from Montmartre coteries. After World War I he retired to the country, became bitterly contemptuous of modern art ("Abstract paintings give me a toothache"), reserved his choicest scorn for his most famed contemporary: "Picasso is the gravedigger of French...
...Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child?-No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" Cummings is still hitting his readers with bricks-but also with the flowers and the fancies of a unique lyricism. crazy jay blue) demon laughshrieking at me your scorn of easily hatred of timid & loathing for (dull all regular righteous comfortable) unworlds